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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






2. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






3. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






4. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






5. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






6. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






7. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






8. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






9. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






10. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






11. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






12. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






13. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






14. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






15. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






16. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






17. Float (total float - free float)






18. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






19. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






20. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






21. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






22. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






23. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






24. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






25. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






26. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






27. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






28. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






29. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






30. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






31. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






32. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






33. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






34. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






35. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






36. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






37. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






38. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






39. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






40. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






41. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






42. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






43. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






44. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






45. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






46. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






47. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






48. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






49. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






50. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information